YOUR readers may have received a fase impression of physiotherapy from Hester Lacey's review of massage ("Massage - just ie down and take it", Rea Life, 3 September). Simpe touch therapy, as she describes it, is sti centra to physiotherapy, which h...

On the contrary, through redundancy much expertise has been and is being lost, and companies will often now take on cheaper, less skilled labour. Indeed the very notion of flexibility or transferability of labour implies that skill and quality are li...

Martin Hutchison Stirling

The TV security system has won approval at many public meetings, but that welcome will soon wear thin if the system becomes identified with the sort of ill-formed, sweeping generalisations about the local people featured in your report. Most people i...

David Smith Milton Keynes.

Jo Evans simon@bowfor.demon.co.uk

I won't even mention fear of redundancy, short-term contracts, negative equity or concern over NHS provision. No wonder the feel-good factor and increased consumer spending are not even visible on a distant horizon. Barbara Daniels Northwich, Cheshir...

In the rest of the piece I gathered the clear impression that this astute woman knows how to keep her brains, personality and family life well hidden from people who are not embarrassed to be heard screaming with envy. Virginia Browne-Wilkinson Flore...

I began by telling him that I wouldn't have been at the party if I had known that David Irving (according to whose very special version of history Hitler knew nothing about the Holocaust) was at the same time giving a lecture at the Book Fair, which ...

But how much longer can we rely on science to hold the line against racism? Its endorsement of anti-racism has been part of the post-war order, like the Soviet bloc and the welfare state. Like them, however, it may prove to be no more than the produc...

So why should they now return to principle and jeopardise the peace process? Why dig in their heels over the IRA's refusal to start handing over arms, when even the police and the Army say that this is an issue of no importance? Gerry Adams and Sinn ...

For Macbeth it was the opposite: the absence of fear. The Latin prefix se meant "without": and cura meant "care", so securitas was freedom from care, thence unconcern, thence carelessness, or misplaced confidence. An Elizabethan talking about "a fals...

Dressing: there is no question of wearing anything from Saint Laurent, Chanel, Cardin. Forget the Robert Clergerie shoes and the Jean-Paul Gaultier perfume. Downstairs: those coffee beans, were they roasted and packed in France? The milk? None of tha...

This works only if your readers have very short memories and fail to notice that you've never previously shown a jot of concern for raped women in East Timor or exhausted mothers in Bangladesh. But even if you're sympathetic, the conference poses awk...

Sir: Teresa Poole ("So many women, so little time", 7 September) is right to draw attention to delegates' concern at the diversion of attention away from women's issues at the UN Women's Conference in Peking. Oxfam shares this concern, as the confere...

It was like acting with the Rock of Gibraltar - Billie Whitelaw on working with Sir Laurence Olivier I think we are now culpable in the light of history in that we didn't spend enough money on leakage reduction as a means of securing supply - Sir Gor...

Sir: I was interested to read the article by Christian Wolmar and John Arlidge about the proposed car-free estates ("Escape from chock-a-block Car City", 5 September) on my return from spending two weeks in one, Christiania in Copenhagen. The Christi...

Sir: I never cease to be amazed by the arrogance of the Labour Party's claims. Your report ("Labour is to outlaw age bias at work", 7 September) that the Labour Party was the first major political party to use the law to fight ageism is simply not tr...

Sir: I was very surprised to read your editorial (8 September) criticising the Labour Party for failing to speak out against French nuclear tests in the Pacific. The truth is that Labour has been active on this matter from the outset. Robin Cook wrot...

Sir: I assure Professor Broadbent (Letters; "Fluid words and helpful fluids", 5 September) that with my old Olivetti, I can "get exactly the right word in exactly the right place". All I have to do is to take a pen, draw a line through the wrong word...

Sir: Michael Sheridan's rather gloomy "Rusting hulks in the land that Russia forgot" (7 September) places the accent upon the Communist background of most of Ukraine's leadership as a negative factor in its current stage of development. But is this r...

Don't think I like this particular journey; the whole subject fills me with a queasy disgust. I would far rather squat over a hole in the ground than use one of those appalling Teutonic loos, where a ledge catches everything for a quick pre-flush ins...

The most positive element is the acceptance by the Serb delegation that Bosnia-Herzegovina should remain a single, internationally recognised state in its present borders. On the face of it, this buries Serb hopes of forging an enlarged Serbian state...